The politics of petulance : America in an age of immaturity / Alan Wolfe.

By:

Wolfe, Alan, 1942- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: ix, 210 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780226555164 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.51/30973 23

LOC classification:

JC574.2.U6 W855 2018

Contents:

Mature liberalism -- Democracy's demagogue -- The return of mass society -- From conspiracy to irony -- Tragedy, comedy, and American democracy -- Immature democracy -- Some lessons for the future.

Summary: In this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity-one that we've seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mature liberalism -- Democracy's demagogue -- The return of mass society -- From conspiracy to irony -- Tragedy, comedy, and American democracy -- Immature democracy -- Some lessons for the future.

In this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity-one that we've seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time.

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